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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Congress Goa Desk in charge of Dinesh Gundu Rao today said that exit polls often don’t predict correct numbers. “Many times, exit polls don’t predict correct numbers. We have done our own assessment through groundwork and our own sources,” said Rao. He further said that he is confident Congress will get an absolute majority and form government in alliance with Goa Forward Party. “As soon as the entire results are out, we will have a CLP meeting; within a few minutes, we will elect a CLP leader, and we will go and stake the claim,” he said.…

Goemkarponn desk VERNA: William Barreto has been elected new Sarpanch and Annie Periera as a Deputy Sarpanch of Verna panchayat. Both were elected unopposed. In a special meeting called on Tuesday in Verna panchayat after former Sarpanch Louren Fernandes tendered her resignation a few days ago, new Sarpanch and deputy sarpanch was unopposed elected. Six members of the nine members Panchayat were present for the election, whereas the other three panches were absent. Later speaking to the reporters, newly elected Verna Sarpanch William Barreto mentioned that his main objective would be to immediately take up pre-monsoon works. Barreto also mentioned…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Mormugao Municipal employees/ workers helplessly await their three-month salary. The Mormugao Municipal Council, which had promised to clear salary by Monday, failed to keep its word. Once again, the MMC has failed to keep its word of giving two months’ salaries to the municipality workers and employees. A municipal worker Mahesh Salgaonkar informed that he and other municipal officers went to the Directorate of Municipal Administration and inquired about the delay in the salaries. We were told that all necessary signatures have been given except the Chief Secretary’s signature. Chief Secretary was unavailable. Therefore the salary was…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Locals at Mestawada Curti demanded today inspection of Mestawada Curti Nullah by Panchayat and pollution control board after locals witnessed several fish nullah were dead and floating in a nullah at Mestawada Curti. Locals suspect chemical waste released into nullah from the Industrial unit at Bethora. Harish Naik, a local of Mestawada, also filed a complaint with Curti- Khandepar Panchayat demanding action against industries releasing chemicals in Mestawada nullah. He said such incidents also happened in the past. “We have also seen in past the chemical is often released in March to the rainy…

* Urge government not to play with lives of primary school children. * Warned to stage agitation if the tower is not removed immediately. Goemkarponn desk PONDA: The Usgao locals and School management at Barzan Usgao had strongly opposed the construction of a mobile tower near Barzan Primary School Usgao. The locals submitted a memorandum to Usgao- Ganjem Panchayat to remove the mobile tower. The copy of the memorandum was also forwarded to ADEI Ponda, Deputy Director of Education Zone Panjim, and Deputy Collector Ponda. The Locals also warned to stage agitation if…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: With the prediction of fuel price hikes due to the Russia-Ukraine war, Goa has witnessed long queues for filling up tanks ahead of Counting Day. Economic experts have opined that the fuel prices will be hiked post counting for the elections in five states. Since Monday evening, there have been long queues and fear of fuel prices to hike in the next few days long-Long queues continued for the second day to fill the fuel tank. To add to problems some petrol pump remained closed for or another reason and thus panic gripped that there would also…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Mormugao Port Authority is also looking forward to handling green (Pharma) cargo in the Mormugao Port, and discussions in this regard are in progress. PM Gati Shakti’s plan will help multiple departments work in sync for the country’s real-time economic growth. Mormugao Port Authority (MPA) Chairman Rajiv Jalota (IAS), during the interaction with the media, highlighted the objectives of PM Gati Shakti – National Master Plan, a common platform for coordination among sixteen Ministries and to arrive at a holistic approach for faster implementation of Infra projects in Roads, Railway, Port, Airport, Waterways, multimodal and logistic which…